Judas Returns with a Nikon

Staff · Issue 36, May/Jun 2007 · pp. 27–31

Products mentioned: Aquatica AD200 housing, Aqua View viewfinder, Nikon D200, Nikon 10.5mm lens, Nikon 105mm Macro lens, Ikelite DS125 strobes, Ikelite sync cords, 8-inch dome port, Tokina 10-17mm lens, Canon 20D

While everyone was walking around indoors in jackets last November and talking about diving, I was actually doing some. DEMA is the diving world’s convention venue to show off the latest and greatest. I didn’t go. I went to Grand Cayman. The fine folks at Aquatica did go. They were among those with some cool stuff to present to the diving world. In the offerings was a new D200 housing with a slide out camera mounting tray and an eye-popping viewfinder called the Aqua View. They had just finished the viewfinder prototype about a day prior to the November 2006 DEMA Show and installed it into the new Ad200 housing for the Nikon D200 camera. Intrepid pro Mauricio Handler had a chance to dive with it... in a pool. So when the Aquatica folks got wind I was cooling my fins in Grand Cayman at the lovely Cobalt Coast with the DiveTech folks, they decided to put me to work. “Want to test our new h…